Optimising Data Centre Power – A Case Study in Saving Power
Andrew Gibson,Director Power Business - Northern Europe, Raritan
Andrew Gibson has worked for Raritan since Spring 2003 when he was responsible for setting up Raritan’s first London office and establishing a team that has grown the UK business five fold since then.
Following Raritan’s development of a new generation of Intelligent Power Technologies for Data Centres in 2007 Andrew has taken on the responsibility for developing Raritan’s European power business.
Andrew has worked on numerous projects providing business and security reviews on the implementation of Raritan’s IP power strips and IP based secure access technologies. Industry sectors covered include finance, telecoms, legal and oil & gas.
Prior to Raritan, Andrew had more than 15 years experience in the IT industry working in automating TV and Radio Newsrooms, computerising production of film and TV, early SAN implementations for film production and some of the first KVM over IP installations in the UK.
Session Synopsis
Raritan briefly review the options available for tackling power optimisation in the data centre before presenting their own case study in how they tackled the problem in their own data centre and delivered 6% power savings within two months.
The case study explains how Raritan achieved their PUE figure, what was learned from this and what was subsequently required to improve on the initial measurement and deliver savings. The presentation and case study explore the need for a holistic approach tackling power optimisation where simply changing one of the variables would have had a limited effect.
It focuses on the need to increase measurement data as a key to tackling the problem for the long term and how this was achieved and the continued benefits being achieved.
Session date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 3:00pm
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